Heyzap adds option to pay game developers with Bitcoin

If you’re a game developer and you want to make some coin — Bitcoin that is — you’re in luck. Heyzap, which makes tools to help game developers encourage players promote their games (by checking in or earning badges, for instance), announced last night that it would offer the option for developers who earn money from Heyzap’s advertising platform to receive payment in Bitcoin . Developers can also use Bitcoin to pay for ad campaigns they buy on Heyzap’s network. “We have some developers in countries that don’t accept Paypal, so Bitcoin makes sense to be able to pay them out,” Heyzap co-founder Jude Gomila told VentureBeat. “Also, some developers just want to be paid in Bitcoin rather than USD.” Bitcoin is an increasingly popular all-digital currency. The value of a single Bitcoin has rocketed up recently, from $30 in June 2011 to over $100 per Bitcoin as of April 1 . Howev...